Inpiring Excerpt I thought was worth sharing from a book I'm currently reading: Accordion Crimes by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Annie Proulx,:
''You got to think a musical instrument is human or, anyway, alive,'' said Beutle. ''You take fiddle now, we say it has a neck, and in the human neck what do you find? Vocal cords like strings, where the sound comes from. Now, the accordion, we have here an instrument that breathes! It breathes, it lives. Jesus Christ! Even so without a neck. Lungs it's got. An d the piano? The keys are fingers, answering your fingers. The trumpet, the cornet, is a nose. That you blow...''
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New-York Sound a Century Ago
Read MoreThis remarkable labor of love from historian Emily Thompson gives us a chance to hear New York a century ago. Explore sounds by Type, Location, or on a Timeline.
Source: http://recordingology.com/2013/12/27/the-soundscape-of-new-york-city-at-the-beginning-of-the-last-millennium/